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Gastrointestinal Cancers

About the Cancer

Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers remain among the most fatal cancers. Advances in treatment have lagged well behind other disease priorities such as breast cancer because of a smaller pool of research funding and fewer survivors to carry the torch of advocacy.

Georgetown Lombardi's Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers focuses on national efforts on curing this deadly set of diseases. Combining expertise in molecular medicine, translational research, and a patient-centered philosophy, the Ruesch Center realizes the dream of individualized curative therapies through research, care, and advocacy.

Dramatic improvements in molecular biology have lead to a better understanding of what makes cancers "tick", new anti-cancer agents are being developed at an unprecedented pace, new technologies allow us to measure the many variables quickly and accurately, and improvements in bio-informatics allow us to analyze the resulting data sets. These improvements are the foundation of personalized medicine, the only way forward in the quest to cure cancer.

Georgetown Lombardi's world-renowned Research Faculty are discovering cancer risk factors, designing effective prevention strategies, and learning how to detect cancers earlier. They are developing and testing the cancer treatments of tomorrow - targeted therapies that will improve both survival and quality of life. They are making progress toward the ultimate goal: to eradicate cancer.